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slumgullion

 (n): a thin stew of meat and vegetables
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about 1 year ago arby said: AmHer sez

NOUN: A watery meat stew.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps slum, muddy deposit in a mining sluice + dialectal gullion, mud (perhaps from Irish Gaelic goilín, pit).
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But didn't Shakespeare use it as an insult, or am I imagining things again?

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